Our Crowdfunding Groups
In Fall 2021, the CPP Wild project began as an educational initiative to improve awareness of wildlife and environmental literacy in our non-majors biology classrooms. The students participate in a research experience where they get to ask questions about CPP's wildlife that call Voorhis Preserve (our on-campus preserve) their home. Using photos from trail cameras and through a community science platform called Zooniverse, students get to identify the wildlife they see in the photos. Using the dataset they
Zooniverse platform interface used by students to identify wildlife in trail camera photos.generate, they get to ask and answer questions of their interest on any species captured or groups of species of their choosing. Students have the opportunity to step foot on the preserve and witness some of the trail cameras in action!How many students will be impacted?
To date, CPP Wild has impacted over 3,000 students, reaching over 500 per semester!
How will your donation help?
With every semester, we try to improve on this experience and one thing that has been lacking is the hands-on experience with trail cameras. As a polytechnic, we are trying to make this happen! With your support, we can purchase a class set of trail cameras for students to practice with in the classroom and give them an immersive, polytechnic experience.
Learn more about CPP Wild and check out our community science platform (click on the "General Public" button) to see some wildlife of Cal Poly Pomona!
Pump it up! Just like the push-ups these lizards do! This level will help support the purchase of even the smallest items we need like a padlock or SD card.
In honor of one of the noisiest birds on the preserve, this level will help fund the purchase of SD cards which will store the photos the trail cameras take.
Don't scurry away just yet, this level will help purchase batteries and chargers to keep these trail cameras working.
Don't you hop away! With this level, you will be supporting the purchase of padlocks and cable locks for the trail camera security boxes.
Our most commonly captured animal, the coyote, at this level you will help fund security boxes for each of the trail cameras.
In honor of the largest documented animal on the preserve, the California Mule Deer, this level of donation will help fund purchasing 10 trail cameras.
